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(No Model.) I W. PERRY &'J.-A. PRINCE.

BROOM COVER. I

N0. 313,233. PatentedMar. 3, 1885.

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UNITED STATES PATENT @FFICE.

WILLIAM PERRY AND JAMES A. PRINCE, OF INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA.

BROOM- COVER.

SPECIFICATIQN forming part of Letters Patent Nov 313,233, dated March 3, 1885.

Application filed December 31, 1883. (No model.)

T at whom. it may concern.-

Be it known that we, WILLIAM PERRY and JAMEs A. PRINCE, bot-h of the city of Indianapolis, county of Marion. and State of Indiana, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Broom-Covers, of which the iollowing is a specification.

Our said invention consists in an openended sack adapted to be slipped over a package of brooms, and provided with draw-strings at each end, by which its ends can be drawn in and the straw portion of the brooms thus efficiently protected.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, which are made a part hereof, and on which similar letters of reference indicate similar parts, Figure 1 is a perspective view of a stand of brooms covered or secured by our improved cover; Fig. 2, a perspective view of the cover; Fig, 3, a transverse section of the same, and Fig. 4 a cross-section thereof.

In said drawings, the portions marked A represent the sack or cover, B the brooms, and a c the draw-strings. The sack or cover A is preferably made of paper, although it may be made of muslin or other fabric, and is of sufficient size to contain the desired number of brooms. (usuallya dozen.) Its upper edge, a, is preferably turned in and provided with holes I), and the lower edge, 9, is likewise turned in and provided with holes d. The drawstrings a a are passed through these holes and adapted to draw up the sack or cover, as will be presently more fully detogether in bunches of a dozen and the cover A slipped over the straw portion. The drawstring a is drawn up, so as to bring the upper edge of the cover closely around the top of the broom, and the string 0 is likewise drawn in atthe bottom, so that the brooms are completely protected by the cover, as will be readily understood. This cover preventsthe straws from becoming broken or the bottoms of the brooms from being spread out while said brooms are being handled or transported in the course of trade.

Having thus fully described our said inven tion, what we claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. A cover for brooms, consisting of a sack open at both ends, and provided with drawstrings at each end, substantially as set forth.

2. A cover for brooms, consisting ofan openended sack having turned-in portions and perforations at each end, and drawstrings passing through said perforations, whereby the ends are adapted to be drawn in around the brooms at t e top and bottom, substan- \VILLIAM PERRY. JAMES A. PRINCE.

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SALMON A. BUELL, O. F. W. RAsENER.

scribed. The brooms B are usually secured 

